[GLLUG] Somewhere in hell, there is a snowball refusing to melt.

[Charles Ulrich]

On Friday 27 July 2007 06:02:07 you wrote:
> That snowball isn't refusing to melt, it's not really a snowball. 
> It's Microsoft Snow.  It kinda looks like snow from afar but it's not
> really useful.  And it's sole purpose is to make it look like MS did
> something novel.  If you open it up (which is a violation of the
> MS-Snow EULA, btw), you'll see it's styrofoam with a shiny cover.

Right, the snowball is that Microsoft is actually coming out and 
saying, "Hey! We like open source" after years of decrying it as 
inferior, unreliable, and insecure as compared to closed-source 
products.

Nobody really expects MS to get involved in OSS on any significant 
level. This is just a PR thing to dupe the public into thinking that 
they don't hate OSS as much as they really do deep down.

-- 
Charles Ulrich
Ideal Solution, LLC -- http://www.idealso.com